US Foreign Aid & International Development
– Are they mutually exclusive?

• Economic threats, political coercion, and US diplomacy. How failed foreign policy can threaten America’s national security.
  
  
• Foreign Policy budget for international assistance – trends, changes and top recipients.  Is it all about domestic interests?
  
  
• The rise of the State Department as an economic donor with political power (ESF funds) and global coercing rights.
  
  
• Funding for Economic Development - Millennium Challenge Corporation’s –the unborn promise.
  
  
• USAID’s final days?  Dwindling authority, budget and staff, displaced by MCC and State Department.
  
  
• What drives fund allocation?
  
  
  ●Funding by region and purpose.
  ● Funding for Wars on Terror (GWOT) and Drugs
  ● Funding for AIDS (PEPFAR)